Spotlight on an original weapon that was used by the supporters of the abolitionist John Brown in his historic raid on Harper’s Ferry in ... In the 1800s, before the Civil War, if you were ...

He rented a farm in Maryland, across the Potomac River from Harpers Ferry. Here he assembled his ... The raid ultimately hastened the advent of the Civil War.

The history of Harpers Ferry mirrors the history of the United ... some of which were spirited away to the Southern states ...

In one fateful night, John Brown brought the country closer to Civil War (Video: Meredith Bragg). Read more at http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/Day ...

As a vital early American town, Harpers Ferry has been the site of a number of historical events. It was a point of supply for Meriwether Lewis’s Corps of Discovery, the site of John Brown’s ...